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" Do cream and mantle like a standing pond; And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit ; As who should say, I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark! O "
Elements of Criticism - Page 407
by Lord Henry Home Kames - 1833 - 504 pages
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Beauties of the British Poets: Being a Pocket Dictionary of Their Most ...

1834 - 340 pages
...the draught, and blot it out for ever. •*# Gravity. Affected. There are a set of men whose visages Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond; And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress 1 d in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; ■As who should say, 1 am »S£r Oracle^...
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Speculation, by the author of 'Traits and traditions in Portugal'.

Julia S H. Pardoe - 1834 - 308 pages
...VII. " I MUST be permitted to remark;" observed the Countess of Blacksley in that tone " As who shall say ' I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bark' " " I must be permitted to remark that the sacrifices which my niece Lady Clara Nichols has made, should...
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The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe: The borough

George Crabbe - 1834 - 336 pages
...it fame. — POPE. There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pool, And do a wilful stillness entertain : With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion, As who should say, " 1 am Sir Oracle, " And when I ope my lips let no dog bark." Merchant of Venice....
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The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe: The borough

George Crabbe - 1834 - 340 pages
...do a wilful stillness entertain : With purpose to be drass'd in an opinion, As who should say, " 1 am Sir Oracle, " And when I ope my lips let no dog bark." Merchant of Venice. Smn'felix; quis enim neget ? felixque manebo; Hoc quoque quis dubitet? Tutum me...
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The Western Messenger, Volume 5

James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, James Handasyd Perkins - 1838 - 370 pages
...cream and mantle, like a standing pool, Who do a wilful stillness entertain, On purpose to be dressed in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit;...ORACLE ; And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark." With such pompous blockheads it is difficult to argue on this, or indeed, any other moral subject....
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The Linwoods: Or, "Sixty Years Since" in America, Volume 1

Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1835 - 290 pages
...honoured, talk freely, and of assuring himself that this great man did not, as was sometimes said of him, " A wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom;" but that his taciturnity was the result of profound thought, anxiously employed on the most serious...
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The Linwoods: Or, "Sixty Years Since" in America, Volume 1

Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1835 - 314 pages
...honoured, talk freely, and of assuring himself that this great man did not, as was sometimes said of him, " A wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom;" but that his taciturnity was the result of profound thought, anxiously employed on the most serious...
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The Linwoods: Or, "Sixty Years Since" in America, Volume 1

Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1835 - 292 pages
...honoured, talk freely, and of assuring himself that this great man did not, as was sometimes said of him, " A wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom;" but that his taciturnity was the result of profound thought, anxiously employed on the most serious...
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SHAKESPEARE

BIBLIOTHEQUE ANGLO-FRANCAISE - 1836 - 648 pages
...Antonio,— I love thee, and it is my love that speaks ;— There are a sort of men, whose visages I to cream and mantle, like a standing pond; And do a wilful...wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, lam sir Oracle, And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark ! O my Antonio, I do know of these, That therefore...
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The complete works of William Shakspeare, with notes by the most ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1838 - 790 pages
...Antonio,— I love thee, and it is my love that speaks \— There are a sort of men, »hose visages Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond ; And do...Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should »ay, / am Sir Oracle. Gra. Let me play the fool : Лпа, i nit- apeak. IQ a neat's toogue < lible....
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